"A
prudent man foresees evil and hides himself, but the simple pass on
and are punished." -Proverbs 22:3

Over
650 Tornadoes spawned in April according to the National Weather Service.
That shatters national record by nearly a hundred more than the last
three Aprils combined.

This
month, the Mississippi River flooded more land than it has in the past
forty years.

2010
saw a record number of earthquakes. Oh how many lives could have been
saved if people were only prepared!

My
pastor's wife was a passenger in a tragic motor vehicle accident several
years ago when the driver fell asleep at the wheel. As a result of that
accident, she almost lost her ability to walk. On a trip out of town
recently, she commented that she was unable to sleep in a car as a result
of that accident.

My
thoughts went to how many accidents I had in my life that were avoidable
if only I hadn't been "asleep at the wheel." When I was ten
years old, I swung from a tire swing two stories in the air from a tree
fort I had built. Unfortunately, the tire was tied to the tree branch
overhead by copper telephone wire, which, of course, stretched and snapped,
sending me speeding to the ground where I landed on my back and was
knocked unconscious. My brother found me with a tire around my waist
on the ground three hours later. (My head lay in the dirt between two
large roots that were sticking out of the ground.)

Jesus
warned his followers that when they saw Jerusalem surrounded by armies,
they should flee to the hills. How, you might wonder, could they flee
to the hills if Jerusalem was surrounded by armies? Titus, in A.D. 70,
abandoned his plan to lay siege to Jerusalem, and Jews celebrated their
divine deliverance. However, the Christians who remembered what Jesus
prophesied took this opportunity to leave the city and flee to the hills.
Titus soon returned and laid siege to Jerusalem until the Jews were
feeding off and murdering each other. Jerusalem was totally destroyed,
but the Christians survived - if they were prepared. It's not easy to
live in the hills unless you were prepared.

The
consequences for nations who abandon God’s Word for alternative
moral standards is devastating. Nations may rise to greatness over centuries,
but once the longsuffering of God is finally exhausted, it may shrink
to slavery in a day. But not before the prophets issue their warnings.
One such prophet of God was David Wilkerson, and his tragic death in
April gives me the distinct impression that the United States is entering
a new phase that may culminate in the bitter judgment and fiery calamity
that Wilkerson envisioned.

The
Economic Disaster Around the Corner

Congress
has recently been trying to negotiate a remedy for the government's
massive, unsustainable debt. The most heated arguments involve the soaring
price of fuel, but that is missing the forest for a tree. The Democrats
propose raising taxes while the Republicans propose easing restrictions
on off-shore drilling, but both remedies are like bandaids on a festering
cancer. Very few leaders propose the kind of drastic changes necessary
in order to halt the inevitable disaster.

The
most pressing problem is that our debt is so great that the central
government must increase how much the United States can borrow so that
it can continue to pay its bills and avoid defaulting on its debt, or
else must drastically reduce spending. In March of this year, our central
government spent eight times as much money as came in through tax revenue!
Most of that spending went to those who redeemed Treasury securities
that matured. That's the problem with borrowing to pay your bills: if
you take out more and more credit cards to pay your bills, one day,
the minimal monthly payment on your debt is over half your paycheck!

Of
the next top four bills our central government must pay, three are entitlement
programs (Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security), and fourth most
expensive bill is defense.

Our
central government is borrowing 40 cents on every dollar we spend. You
try borrowing on credit card debt 40% of your weekly budget, and see
where that gets you - bankruptcy court! Our nation's debt now is over
14 trillion dollars, which is slightly over 100% of the gross domestic
product of the whole country. This year, tax receipts and other forms
of revenue will only cover about 57 percent of what the government spends.
The government will borrow, by issuing Treasury securities, to cover
the other 43 percent.

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What
will happen when borrowing that 43% gets us to the 14.3 trillion limit
on borrowing?

According
to Reuters News Service, "The Treasury Department says Washington
will breach the congressionally-set $14.3 trillion limit on borrowing
by around May 16. By employing extraordinary measures, Treasury Secretary
Timothy Geithner will be able to stave off a default, but only until
July 8."

May
16? Talk about "just around the corner"!

Well,
what are we going to do about it?

Some
hope that the central government will raise the debt ceiling, but that
just postpones the day of reckoning. That amount of debt is impossible
to repay. Weighing our children and grandchildren down with massive
debt through the increase in taxation and reduction in benefits is an
inappropriate prescription for their parents' and grandparents' greed.

What
changes are necessary to avoid disaster? Many fiscal commissions and
economic panels have been assembled and proposed the changes that are
necessary, but the government prefers to bloat the massive debt with
escalated borrowing, all the while praying that they won't be in office
when the deck of cards comes crashing down. Why won't politicians make
the necessary changes in spending; namely, changes to military, Medicare,
Medicaid, and Social Security, and healthcare?

They
don't want to upset the voters.

Why
Do Democracies Collapse?

That
reminds me of well-known quote from an eighteenth century Scottish professor
named Alexander Tytler, who when describing the causes of the fall of
the Athenian Republican two hundred years earlier, said:

"A democracy
cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist
until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from
the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes
for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury
with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal
policy, always followed by a dictatorship. The average age of the
world's greatest civilizations has been 200 years.

"Great nations
rise and fall. The people go from bondage to spiritual truth, to great
courage, from courage to liberty, from liberty to abundance, from
abundance to selfishness, from selfishness to complacency, from complacency
to apathy, from apathy to dependence, from dependence back again to
bondage."

The
voters have figured out how to "vote themselves largesse from the
public treasury." It's what Frederic Basiot called "legal
plunder" and it's become the American way of life. Government handouts,
including Social Security, Medicare, and unemployment, make up more
than a third of total wages and salaries in the U.S. Those who make
2/3 of the nation's money are forced, upon pain of fine, prison, or
property confiscation, to pay for the non-working citizens' bills. That's
socialism, and it does not bode well for our freedom.

Where
are we on Professor Tytler's timeline from liberty to bondage? Definitely,
dependence. On God? No, on government. The politicians aren't proposing
necessary remedies because they don't want to upset the voters who are
dependent on government.

Now,
we are beginning to "collapse over loose fiscal policy."

What
You Must Do to Prepare

Have
you ever seen a community "freak out" over a disaster, such
as a flood or hurricane? I've been in South Florida as a large hurricane
threatened the shoreline, and the grocery shelves were emptied in hours.
Do you remember what happened to New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina?
Remember the looting and the riots? Do you remember the crime in the
street, and the murder and rape of the innocent? Do you remember the
riots that broke out in big cities all over the nation after the officers
who beat up Rodney King were acquitted? Do you remember the L.A. riots,
when criminals descended upon neighborhoods to loot and murder, when
people were drug out of their cars because of the color of their skin
and abused? Remember that trucker who was dragged out of his semi, beat
senseless, and then had his head crushed with a brick? Those who don't
learn from history are condemned to repeat it. Are you prepared?

At
the very least, everyone must have a place away from the city where
they can go for an emergency, whether it be economic disaster and the
subsequent social unrest, or from a terrorist attack, etc. If you don't
have the ability to purchase land in the country near neighbors you
trust, you need to make some friends. People in the country will need
companions that they can trust who can join them in a time of crisis.

You
need to have enough gasoline to get you to your destination. Prepare
for fuel pumps to not be operational, and you won't be deserted in the
middle of nowhere if they aren't.

You
need to have enough food for a year. This is one thing that may be worth
going into debt for. Learn how to store it safely for long term with
mylar bags and oxygen absorbers in five gallon buckets.

You
need to have non-hybrid seeds for planting a garden (only non-hybrid
seeds produces fruit whose seeds can be replanted.)

You
need to have the ability and the courage to defend your family and your
property from looters and criminals.

Lastly
and most importantly, we must repent of our sin that has brought on
this disaster. Our country deserves the judgment that is coming because
of our sin. Don't point the finger at a political party, a political
leader, or the Muslim terrorists, or the Federal Reserve, or any of
the boogey mans that will be blamed for the crisis. When Jeremiah prophesied
judgment upon Israel for sin, the false prophets promised continued
blessing and security. Jeremiah urged repentance, the false prophets
urged alliance with Egypt.

"Blessed
is the nation whose God is the Lord's" the Scripture says, and
"Every nation that forgets God will be turned into hell."
America, sooner or later, will face national judgment for our national
sin.

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The
Christians who obeyed Jesus' admonition to get out of the Jerusalem
were saved because of their faith and obedience to God. Their children
were free because their parents believed and obeyed. It was almost four
decades from Jesus' warning until it came to pass. Even if judgment
on our country doesn't come in our lifetime, we must be like Jonadab
who prepared his children for the judgment that the prophet foretold,
and several generations later, they were still following Jonadab’s
instructions and were able to escape the promised judgment. We must
prepare our children too. Don't get shut out of God's blessing because
your lamps ran out of oil, and you weren't prepared.

4-
For an interesting video depicting a fictional economic event that very
likely may transpire soon, watch
this video.

5-
I urge you to purchase "Patriots: A Novel of Survival in the Coming
Collapse" by Rowles. It is a book that helped me prepare for what
very well may happen. Buy
it here.

6-
I urge you to get my new novel, The Revolt of 2020, wherein I lay out
a plan for godly state resistance to federal tyranny. "When the
foundations are destroyed, what can the righteous do?" the Scripture
asks. We can rebuild on a sturdy foundation. My fictional novel follows
ordinary people as they flee government persecution and influence state
leaders to resist unlawful and unconstitutional federal government to
establish government on the Lord's shoulders instead of on the quicksands
of humanism. If this national economic disaster transpires as I suspect,
there will be strong calls for states to want to separate from the corpse
of Washington, DC, for fiscal reasons, but the church must issue the
call to repent, specifically for the shedding of innocent blood, in
order to avert God's wrath and enjoy God's blessing of freedom. Buy
it here.

7-
Buy survival materials from a Christian company. Great service! (They
offer to send you a free Bible if you don't have one.) Visit www.survivalunlimited.com/

Patrick
Johnston and his wife Elizabeth reside in Zanesville, Ohio, with their
six young home-schooled children. Patrick is a family practice physician
and founder of the Association of Pro-life Physicians, which is dedicated
to restoring a remnant of physicians in our communities who are convinced
that life begins at conception and who will not commit nor refer for abortions
(www.ProLifePhysicians.org).

He
founded the Alliance to Reform Education Funding to fight public school
levies and promote Christian home-schooling (www.StopSchoolLevies.org).
Dr. Johnston is committed to revival in the church, and the restoration
of Biblical law and constitutional government in America. Dr. Johnston
is currently campaigning for State Representative for District 94 in Ohio.
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